Title 12 , Lex 3 . The law is given in Latin and in English translation in Philip Schaff ’ s History of the Christian Church , Vol . 3 , 3d period , ch . 7 , sec . 75 , p . 380 , footnote 1 ; and in James A . Hessey ’ s Bampton Lectures , Sunday , Lecture 3 , par . 1 , 3d ed ., Murray ’ s printing of 1866 , p . 58 . See discussion in Schaff , as above referred to ; in Albert Henry Newman , A Manual of Church History ( Philadelphia : the American Baptist Publication Society , printing of 1933 ), rev . Education , 305-307 ; and in Leroy E . Froom , The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers ( Washington , D . C .: Review and Herald Publishing Assn ., 1950 ), vol . 1 , pp 376-381 .
Page 54 . Prophetic Dates .— An important principle in prophetic interpretation in connection with time prophecies is the year-day principle , under which a day of prophetic time is counted as a calendar year of historic time . Before the Israelites entered the land of Canaan they sent twelve spies ahead to investigate . The spies were gone forty days , and upon their return the Hebrews , frightened at their report , refused to go up and occupy the promised land . The result was a sentence the Lord passed upon them : “ After the number of the days in which ye searched the land , even forty days , each day for a year , shall ye bear your iniquities , even forty years .” Numbers 14:34 . A similar method of computing future time is indicated through the prophet Ezekiel . Forty years of punishment for iniquities awaited the kingdom of Judah . The Lord said through the prophet : “ Lie again on thy right side , and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days : I have appointed thee each day for a year .” Ezekiel 4:6 . This year-day principle has an important application in interpreting the time of the prophecy of the “ two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings ” ( Daniel 8:14 , R . V .) and the 1260-day period , variously indicated as “ a time and times and the dividing of time ” ( Daniel 7:25 ), the “ forty and two months ” ( Revelation 11:2 ; 13:5 ), and the “ thousand two hundred and threescore days ” ( Revelation 11:3 ; 12:6 ).
Page 56 . Forged Writings .— Among the documents that at the present time are generally admitted to be forgeries , the Donation of Constantine and the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals are of primary importance . “ The ‘ Donation of Constantine ’ is the name traditionally applied , since the later Middle Ages , to a document purporting to have been addressed by Constantine the Great to Pope Sylvester I , which
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